cleaveland

Updated: September 3, 2025

I remained with them twelve or fifteen days, during which time they made me some clothing, and the old gentleman purchased me a pair of boots. I found that I was about fifty or sixty miles from Dayton, in the State of Ohio, and between one and two hundred miles from Cleaveland, on lake Erie, a place I was desirous of reaching on my way to Canada.

William Wells Brown - The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave